Astrakhan Region · Lower Volga
Monastery News
News from the monastery, restoration progress, and spiritual teaching.
Help Restore the Monastery’s Water-Pumping Station
The monastery urgently needs to raise 400,000 rubles (approximately US$5,035) so that the work can begin and be completed before the cold weather arrives.
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- Monastery News
Announcements, events, and daily monastery life. - Restoration Progress
Fundraising updates, estimates, and reports on completed work. - Preaching
Sermons, spiritual reflections, and pastoral guidance.
High-Mountain Dormition–Saint Nicholas Churkinsky Hermitage
An ancient Orthodox men’s monastery on high ground above the Volga—a place of prayer, repentance, pilgrimage and continuing revival.
This is the official website of the High-Mountain Dormition–Saint Nicholas Churkinsky Monastery, a Russian Orthodox men’s monastery in Astrakhan Oblast, Russia.
The monastery in photographs
The active church, brotherhood, historic buildings and daily life of the monastery.
Prayer
Divine services, commemorations for the living and departed, molebens and memorial services continue within the living monastic tradition.
Pilgrimage
Find the route through Bolshoy Mogoy and the ferry crossing, visitor guidance and arrangements for organised groups.
Revival
Historic buildings, the monastery household and pilgrim infrastructure all require continuing restoration and care.
More than four and a half centuries of history
The monastery’s recorded history reaches back to 1568. Churkinsky Hermitage experienced flourishing, closure in 1919, the destruction of its cathedral and bell tower, and the return of monastic life in spring 2004.
Films about Churkinsky Monastery
A five-minute Russian-language film with English subtitles plays directly on this page. The longer documentaries open on their official RUTUBE pages.
Complete documentary collection
The Russian-language films cover the monastery’s ancient origins, the tradition of repentance, Archimandrite Evgeniy, flourishing, destruction and modern revival.
Come in peace and prayer
Churkin settlement, Volodarsky District, Astrakhan Region. The monastery is open to visitors daily from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Organised groups should arrange their visit in advance.
Чуркинский монастырь — официальный сайт 
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